Contact: Lisa Knox – lisa@ccijustice.org Katie Kavanagh – katie@ccijustice.org For immediate release October 27, 2020 Rapid Response Networks Expose ICE’s Raids Threatening Public Health In California Communities report arrests in multiple locations in California in what appears to be a coordinated operation placing public health at risk. Rapid Response Networks in California have documented multiple arrests in the last three days in what appears to be a coordinated operati

October 7th 2020 For Immediate Release Contact Lisa Knox, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice lisa@ccijustice.org Edwin Carmona-Cruz, Pangea Legal Services edwin@pangealegal.org California is home to 23 Rapid Response Networks, operating 24/7 community-led hotlines to report and respond to ICE activity. In anticipation of ICE raids which sow seeds of fear and mistrust in the community and facilitate the spread of COVID-19, the networks have called on elected offici

California Rapid Response Networks PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2020 Contacts: Jesus Chavez, Centro Legal de la Raza, jchavez@centrolegal.org Jesus Ruiz, Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County, jesusr@sacredheartcs.org Teresa Borden, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), tborden@chirla.org Armando Carmona, Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (IC4IJ), media@ic4ij.org Abigail Salazar, San Francisco Rapid Response Network (SFRRN) abigail

For immediate release: August 20, 2020 Local Rapid Response Networks Report ICE Resuming Arrests in Northern California 2020.08.20 – In the first half of August, Rapid Response Networks in Northern California confirmed four arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), after a period in which the agency significantly reduced detentions in the community. Local networks supported by the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ) responded to four arres